Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [pron] [vb past] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then there were the nice people who were n't interesting , and you did n't want to know what they thought of anything . |
| 2 | ‘ Then he wanted to know what I thought of young Hilary , ’ said Tom . |
| 3 | One was to see her own column — for so J.D. called it — in print , another was to know whether or not Dr Neil had read it , and still another was to know what he thought of it — and none of these desires seemed likely to be satisfied . |
| 4 | But it was I who was stupid , too stupid to see he had reason for wanting to establish what he thought of as respectable origins . |
| 5 | Theodora tried to remember what she knew of the geography of the place . |
| 6 | It was very hard to imagine what he made of what was going on . |
| 7 | Lewis took the trouble to transcribe what he remembered of their conversation : |
| 8 | Julia tried to obey , as she tried to do everything he demanded of her over the next few days and as she tried to keep her misery and pain and fear from all of them . |
| 9 | He tried to recall what he knew of Nicholas Braithwaite 's only child . |
| 10 | Any road , erm when I went back to see her she said of the ones who came and asked to go on it , we 've accepted you , but no more . |
| 11 | Her critics thought it crude of her not to care what they thought of her . |
| 12 | But he remembered how the others had watched , not interfering , waiting to see what he made of it , as Peter and Andrew were now . |
| 13 | He sat down on a log and tried to perform what he thought of as the vanishing act , whereby you became insofar as it was possible a part of the surroundings : breathing , seeing , hearing only — merely an aspect of the place , a dimension , like the robin or the moss-covered log or the leafmould on which his feet rested . |
| 14 | As it turned out , the studio ‘ was n't up to much any more and half the equipment was broken ’ , but , according to Mondays ' manager Nathan McGough , ‘ a little light went on as soon as I met Chris and Tina , so I phoned them to ask what they thought of the band and what they had planned for the next couple of months ’ . |
| 15 | Her insistence seemed absurd in view of her own failed marriage , but I had always been too nervous to point this out , to ask what she made of the break in connection between the symbolism of the dress and the unassailability of the marriage vow . |
| 16 | Sir Philip angrily pressed the innkeeper to say whatever he knew of Coleridge , and was at last told the innocent truth : |
| 17 | The ambassador tried to explain what he knew of the sources of unrest and said he thought the mullahs were getting their money from the merchants in the bazaars , not from the CIA . |
| 18 | She told him about the puzzle of the second set of keys , then Harbury wandered back and began to say what he knew of the case . |
| 19 | Pressed by Harry to tell what he knew of his fellow Tyrrellians ' subsequent careers , Ockleton had covered familiar ground where Dysart and Morpurgo were concerned . |